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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
FADA: find all distinct answers
The wealth of information available on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers. While web-based question answering becomes an emerging topic in recent ye...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
NLDB
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Applying Wikipedia's Multilingual Knowledge to Cross-Lingual Question Answering
The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of Eu...
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Ósc...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Dictionary-Based Amharic-French Information Retrieval
We present four approaches to the Amharic - French bilingual track at CLEF 2005. All experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into French Bags-...
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöst...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...